Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
9.7 B
Context
30d
9.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
8.8 B
Context
30d
19.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Parameters 9.7 B 8.8 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 9,171,187 19,744,243
Downloads all time 63.3 M 68.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2025-10-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

19.7 M4.5 M
Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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